Civic Coalition parliamentary club filed a request on Friday (October 21) a committee be launched to investigate state authorities' action taken with regards to the so-called wiretap scandal of 2014. The committee would look into the period between July 1, 2013, and October 20, 2022. Commenting on the motion filed by the opposition, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said he was in favour of lauching a committee or other mechanisms "to verify the ways that Russian influence was affecting the area of security and energy system".

A ruling PiS party lawmaker Przemysław Czarnecki has been suspended as party member. The MP spent the night and half of Friday at the sobering-up station at Kolska Street in Warsaw. The decision to suspend Czarnecki was made by party chairman Jarosław Kaczyński.

The European Council stated in the conclusions that Russia is responsible for all aspects of the economic crisis we are dealing with - Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday (October 21) after the Council summit in Brussels. "We demand the European Commission analyse options to draw realistic consequences from Russia - not only in the form of sanctions," he added.

Andriy Negrych, director of GEM (Global Empowerment Mission) Ukraine - which provides help to people who lived under Russian occupation - told TVN24 BiS about the organisation's mission. "Some of the towns, cities, and villages were under occupation for more than six months. They lived in fear of being killed, being rape. Unfortunately, many of them were," he said. Asked if such people want Ukraine to keep up the fight, he replied briefly: "Till the end, of course".

The Ministry of National Defence on Thursday (October 20) signed a leasing agreement on the MQ-9A Reaper unmanned reconnaissance drone system for the Polish Armed Forces. "We will be using it until we have acquired our own unmanned reconnaissance system," said the chief of the ministry Mariusz Błaszczak.

"The government is stealing our entitlements" - say the participants of a protest staged in central Warsaw by trade unions. The protesters - whose main aim is to secure the so-called bridging pensions for themselves - gathered in front of the Palace of Culture and Science and later marched towards the seat of the Ministry of Family and Social Policy.

Inflation in Poland in September this year was at 15.7% year on year, according to a report released by Eurostat. This is one of the highest spikes in consumer prices in the European Union. The highest inflation in the bloc last month was recorded in Estonia and Lithuania, and the lowest in France and Malta.

The Disctrict Court in Poznań on Wednesday (October 19) acquitted Mirosław R. "Ryba" and Dariusz L. "Lala" of charges of abducting and assisting in the murder of journalist Jarosław Ziętara. The verdict - in line with which the defendants are to receive compensation of 9,720 zlotys each - is not yet legally binding.

Poland signed an agreement on Wednesday to buy 288 artillery rocket launchers in its latest arms deal with South Korea, following shipments of tanks and howitzers, as it ramps up weapons imports after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Animator, visual artist, director and screenwriter - Józef Ćwietnia - passed away at the age of 85. He was a co-creator of Poland's legendary cartoon characters: piebald terrier Reksio, and brothers Bolek and Lolek. The Animated Film Studio in Bielsko-Biała - for which the artist had worked for many years - informed about his death on social media. "Our heart's been broken today," the studio wrote.

The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Białystok passed a ruling in September in the case of Iraqi migrants, who had been pushed back the Belarusian border by Polish Border Guard officers. The court said at the time the pushback had been a violation of the law. Now, Poland's Commissioner for Human Rights (RPO) has published the justification of the ruling, according to which the Border Guard could not have override the international and EU laws with a national ordinance.

Poland is not afraid of losing European Union (EU) funds, the Polish Prime Minister said on Tuesday, a day after the European Commission warned it could forfeit most development money unless the court system is fixed.

"Our Bayraktar for Ukraine has been manufactured. It's wrapped and ready for delivery," Polish activist and journalist Sławomir Sierakowski wrote in a Facebook post on Monday (October 17). Sierakowski is the initiator of a crowdfunding campaign to purchase a Bayraktar drone for the Ukrainian Army. He also said the drone would be named "Marik". "That's what the Ukrainians call Mariupol, to which they intend to return once it's been recaptured," he explained.

The National Bank of Poland (NBP) announced on Monday (October 17) that - in September 2022 - inflation net of food and energy prices amounted to 10.7% year on year. To compare, in August this year, the core inflation was at 9.9%. The NBP added the period under analysis, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) had stood at 17.2% year on year.

The European Union will not pay Poland the vast majority of 75 billion euros worth of development funds earmarked for it through 2027 unless it fixes its courts, a spokesman for the bloc's executive said on Monday.

Poland's foreign ministry has summoned Israel's ambassador for Monday, a Polish deputy minister said on Friday, after the diplomat criticised the government for not allowing student trips from Israel to visit Holocaust memorial sites in Poland.

Local governments, smaller businesses, and public use entities - such as schools, hospitals or churches - will pay a maximum of 785 zlotys per megawatt hour (MWh) - Poland's Climate and Environment Minister Anna Moskwa said at a press briefing on Friday (October 14). Earlier that day, the government adopted a draft bill on the issue. Furthermore, the project assumes maximum electricity prices for households which exceed the 2,000 kWh limit at 693 zlotys per MWh. Deputy PM Jacek Sasin said on Twitter the government also agreed on a bill on distribution of coal by local governments.

Inflation in Poland in September this year was at 17.2% year on year, according to Poland's Central Statistical Office (Statistics Poland). The increase in consumer prices has passed the threshold of 17% for the first time since February, 1997.

President Andrzej Duda appointed Szymon Szynkowski vel Sek as new minister for the European Union affairs. He replaced Konrad Szymański in this position.

Researchers from Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin discovered the remains of approximately 30 prisoners of war who had been buried in the area of the former Nazi German Stalag II-D Stargard prisoner-of-war camp. According to the scientists, the burial ground found this time are "completely different" from that which they had unearthed in the previous stage of the research. The identity of the deceased persons remains unknown.

"You all know what Żabka is. These stores could be bought back too," the leader of the ruling PiS party Jarosław Kaczyński said at a voter rally in Puławy on Wednesday (October 12). "The reported statement does not refer to any specific process with our participation," Żabka press office replied to TVN24's request for comment.

A leak in Poland on the Druzhba pipeline from Russia reduced the flow of oil to Germany, the operator of the pipeline in Poland said on Wednesday (October 12) while Polish refineries are unaffected.

The EU military training mission for Ukrainian forces will be organised also in Poland - Poland's Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said on Wednesday (October 12) during a break in a meeting of NATO defense ministers in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group format held in Brussels.

A local archeologist in Poland's southeastern city of Tarnów discovered eight complete human skeletons at an earthworks site operated by Tarnów Waterworks. The remains - found by Eligiusz Dworaczyński - come from a former cemetery which had once been located next to the former Bernardine Monastery.

President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday (October 12) appointed former speaker of parliament and current deputy chief of the ruling PiS party Marek Kuchciński as Minister - Member of the Council of Ministers. The president thanked Kuchciński - who will take over as chief of prime minister's office - for stepping up "in these difficult times, when just like the rest of Europe and rest of the world, we are struggling with a whole range of economic problems, mostly caused by the Russian invasion into Ukraine, when there's so much unrest".

Poland's Secretary of State for the European Union, Konrad Szymański, announced his resignation on Wednesday (October 12). "I proposed this to the prime minister and he agreed this could be a good solution for the future. This scenario has been agreed," he told reporters.

Poland's Ambassador to Ukraine, Bartosz Cichocki, told TVN24 on Wednesday (October 12) that the Ukrainian people expect the state authorities "to continue the fight" against the Russians. "Ukrainians have lost too many relatives, too many Ukrainian people have lost their homes to back down now. They have nowhere to back down to, you can sense a very patriotic mood in the air," he added.

Mass bombardments of Ukrainian cities by Russia constitute war crimes under international law, the presidents of the Bucharest Nine group of countries, accompanied by the presidents of North Macedonia and Montenegro, said on Tuesday.